different between unwrought vs inwrought

English

Etymology

From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrou?t, equivalent to un- +? wrought. Doublet of unworked.

Adjective

unwrought (comparative more unwrought, superlative most unwrought)

1. In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

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Verb

unwrought

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwork
   • c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, If Thou Must Love Me^[1]:

     […] Do not say
     ‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way
     Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought
     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ —
     For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
     Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought,
     May be unwrought so. […]

English

Etymology

From past participle of inwork.

Adjective

inwrought (comparative more inwrought, superlative most inwrought)

1. Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2. (figuratively) Fixed, established, ingrained.
   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104

     As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.

Synonyms

• (fixed, established, ingrained): See also Thesaurus:intrinsic

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